★ The Almost Archer Sisters

Accidentally pregnant, married, and settled on the family farm before she reached her mid-twenties, Peachy Archer has all the spontaneity of a coffee table. Now 28, she has two loveable boys, a long-abandoned partial degree ... Read More »

December 8, 2008 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Absolute Violation: Why Torture Must Be Prohibited

By Richard Matthews

It’s a sad comment on the human condition that moral issues thought to have been settled by the grim experience of history are frequently dredged up and reopened for debate. Take, for example, the recent ... Read More »

December 5, 2008 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth

By Margaret Atwood

The evidence is in: Margaret Atwood simply sees more clearly than the rest of us. In her five-part 2008 Massey Lectures, the author applies her familiar cultural X-ray vision to dark material. Debt is usually ... Read More »

December 5, 2008 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The One and Only Zoë Lama

By Tish Cohen

Ever since E. Nesbit more or less invented the middle-grade novel at the turn of the previous century, writers have relished its potential. Standard elements – bad hair, mischief, cooking disasters, the gavotte of friendship, ... Read More »

December 4, 2008

Slavery Today

By Kevin Bales and Becky Cornell

If you were making a list of global problems, slavery probably wouldn’t rank very highly. In fact, the word likely conjures up images of starving men in manacles working in Roman quarries or kidnapped Africans ... Read More »

December 4, 2008

When Elephants Fight: The Lives of Children In Conflict In Afghanistan, Bosnia, Sri Lanka, Sudan and Uganda

By Adrian Bradbury and Eric Walters

In Deborah Ellis’s most recent book, Off to War (Groundwood), she presents the real-life stories of Western children of soldiers who are serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. Though the stories are heartfelt, poignant, and disturbing, ... Read More »

December 4, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

★ Amelia Earhart: The Legend of the Lost Aviator

By Shelley Tanaka; David Craig, illus.

Seventy years after her disappearance, Amelia Earhart continues to excite our imaginations. In Amelia Earhart: The Legend of the Lost Aviator, award-winning writer Shelley Tanaka explores the famed aviator’s life, recounting her remarkable achievements both ... Read More »

December 4, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

Dog Lost

By Ingrid Lee

Themes of eco-awareness, diversity, economic disparity, and the like have become nearly as prevalent in kids’ fiction as the old default messages of believing in yourself and not being afraid to be different. An issue ... Read More »

December 4, 2008

Jolted: Newton Starker’s Rules for Survival

By Arthur Slade

Newton Starker is a 14-year-old American boy freshly enrolled in the Jerry Potts Academy of Higher Learning and Survival in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. At Potts, all students – boys and girls – wear a traditional ... Read More »

December 4, 2008

Dear Toni

By Cyndi Sand-Eveland

In Dear Toni, Nelson, B.C. author Cyndi Sand-Eveland’s first book, 10-year-old Gene turns a dull school project – keeping a journal for 100 days for a time capsule – into an outlet for self-expression. Gene’s ... Read More »

December 4, 2008

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